Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi Committee Rejects Hillary Clinton’s Tweet

The Select Committee on Benghazi, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., rejected former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement that she wants her electronic communication to be disclosed to the general public.

It has been revealed that while serving as top diplomat, Clinton communicated using private email accounts with a private server from her home in New York state, rather than a government issued email account.

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“As Chairman Gowdy noted, former Secretary Clinton has left herself in the unique position of being the only one to determine what records the American people are entitled to,” Benghazi Committee communications director Jamal Ware said in a press release Thursday.

“This has significant negative implications for transparency and government oversight, as well as for media and others who have a legitimate interest in understanding the Secretary’s time in office,” Ware added.

On Wednesday, the Benghazi Committee issued subpoenas for Clinton’s communications pertaining to Benghazi. The former first lady sent a tweet late Wednesday stating she “asked State” to release her email:

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Despite the tweet from the potential 2016 Democratic nominee, Ware asserted it was not enough:

The former Secretary’s tweet does not answer questions about why this was not done when she left office, the integrity of the emails while she controlled them, the scheme to conceal them, or the failure to provide them in logical course.

The Chairman has said the former secretary is welcome to and should release all of her emails, but legitimate investigations do not consider partial records. And that is the point of the subpoena issued yesterday by the Benghazi Committee.

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